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If you are a high-ranking official within a company or organization and improperly use its money or your influence for your personal benefit, you could be charged with criminal breach of trust.
According to the s. 336 of the Criminal Code, breach of trust occurs when “a trustee of anything for the use or benefit, whether in whole or in part, of another person, or for a public or charitable purpose, converts, with intent to defraud and in contravention of his trust, that thing or any part of it to a use that is not authorized by the trust.”
For white-collar criminals, these breaches include complex Ponzi schemes, mortgage scams, tax evasion or fraud. That last term is broadly defined by s. 380 (1) Criminal Code as any dishonest conduct which deprives or risks depriving another person of “any property, money or valuable security or any service.” To read more, click here.
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